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    Packer - can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-

    Hi everyone ! I' ve issues with packer and my proxmox cluster. I would like create a Rocky Linux 9.4 template for starting. After that the idea is to use Terraform with this template. I'm stuck on packer step. This is the permissions through my token pveum acl list | grep -i "packergrp" /...
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    iSCSI, LVM and HA confusion

    So I have a simple 3-node Proxmox lab + Synology NAS. My goal is to be able to build images using Hashicorp Packer and create VM's using Terraform declarations based on those images later. As far as I understand in order to create a VM from an image the storage of this image must exist on a...
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    [SOLVED] Ubuntu template created with packer disables default user account

    This is my packer config for template creation in Proxmox ubuntu-server-focal-docker.pkr.hcl # Ubuntu Server Focal Docker # --- # Packer Template to create an Ubuntu Server (Focal) with Docker on Proxmox # Variable Definitions variable "proxmox_api_url" { type = string } variable...
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    VM: 403 Permission check failed (/nodes/pve2, Sys.Audit)

    Hello there, I'm trying to use Packer to setup an Ubuntu template in Proxmox but I keep getting this error: VM: 403 Permission check failed (/nodes/pve2, Sys.Audit). I'm using an API token and I'm not sure if I'm missing anything. Below are the permissions the token has, please help.
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    [SOLVED] Using Packer to deploy Ubuntu 20.04 to Proxmox

    DISCLAIMER I am not sure if this is even "the right" place for this, but it seems like a great place to start. This mostly relates to the Proxmox API and how VMs are actually created, so if you have any deep knowledge or even just a bright idea I might've missed, shoot it my way :) Problem...
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    [SOLVED] template creation with Packer: boot options menu appears on some cluster and not other

    Hello, We are in the process of installing and configuring 4 clusters of 3 nodes and automating templates creation using Packer. We have a strange behaviour where for some clusters Packer template creation works fine and for others we are faced with a bug during the boot process. First, some...
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    [SOLVED] ubuntu 20.04 liest die cloud-init meta-data nicht

    Hallo, ich habe ein Template von Ubuntu 20.04.3 durch Packer (1.7.3 apple m1) auf Proxmox (6.4-9 - ich weiß, es ist ein bisschen alt) erstellt, wo ich unter anderem auch cloud-init benutzt habe. In der Kernel Command Line gibt Packer das Folgende ein: initrd=/casper/initrd quiet...
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    Packer to build Ubuntu 20

    Trying to use packer to build an ubuntu 20.04 template. I am using the following for my setup. however i always land on the the language selection screen. From reading it seems alot of people load the preseed.cfg into as a floppy for other hypervisors. has anyone been able to make this work...

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